#this is the problem with prequels

[thedreadvampy]

My main commentary on new Star Trek is that Ethan Peck will never be Leonard Nimoy and accordingly I need this franchise to have like 70% less Spock-centric storytelling. You Will Never Be Him.

[khryptid]

Missing the days where the Jedi Order used moxie, the power of Friendship™, a good deal of wit, and a lack of common sense to get shit done in the galaxy

[orion-kenobi]

Count Dooku’s philosophy is so funny. “I think the Jedi Order is doing things wrong. The only way to remedy this is to do worse things.”

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Just cried laughing at a youtube thumbnail of someone who read Flowers in the Attic, and the text on the thumbnail was "PEOPLE LIKE THIS??"

Yes. I fucking LOVE IT.

But also, honey, I get that you hate it. I'm not going to watch the video because I don't trust you won't claim that my loving the best incest fuckery in the whole world makes me a dangerous degenerate, but I respect that you gave it a shot.

100% here for hating Flowers in the Attic, but in this house, we have that shit in hardback and are forever mad there isn't a single fucking accurate swan bed in ANY of the adaptations. INCLUDING THE ONE WHERE THEY CARVED THE WHOLE FUCKING BED.

IT'S A ROUND BED GODDAMNIT WITH WINGS AS FUCK COVER AND GAUZY CURTAINS LET ME SET DESIGN THIS SHIT WITH JOHN WATERS TO DIRECT

[v-v-jones]

Someone please explain to me why I never want to write when I ACTUALLY HAVE TIME to write

[missunderstood-with-ideas]

Anakin*13years old*: how the hell you spell “show-fur?”

Obi wan: C-h-a-u-f-f-e-u-r 

Quinlan *bitter cuz he’s been trying to look like the cool uncle*: ooo fancy pants Master Obi-rich Kenobi over here! Fuck you!

Quinlan *to Anakin and Aalya*: next thing you know he’s gonna be giving us the definition…Master spelling bee ass

Obi wan: I’m about to do something so very unjedi-like

[maxthesillyy]

and if you kick every gay person out of your target audience by purposely trying to make the LIS games not “the gay games” then WHO is going to be playing LIS, decknine?

[psychomusic]

so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.

if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.

THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.

one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.

also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.

the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.

yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)

(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)

AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.

that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)

[jaguarys]

Obi-Wan and Anakin's dynamic continues to hurt me in new ways every day and I'm just forced to go about my day as if I'm not in deep psychological pain over the idea that they could never really truly be able to connect in the ways either of them want simply because they're such different people at a fundamental level

[sheshe-cartoonlover]

Ehehe... I'm having a lot of problems with Internet comments these days... I want to upload a drawing of Capper Dapperpaws, and I have to re-do the post three times... Well, I have nothing better to do anyway, I guess...

This drawing Is from a month or two old <3

[iftadwascool]

[redlettermediathings]

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

BRO THEY LITERALLY DID IT AGAIN

I was talking this morning about how the og Titans were so off balance that they had to keep removing Donna and Wally from the narrative just to make it work because those two were WAY too overpowered for the typical Titan mission.

And do you wanna know what they did in today's Nightwing? Huh? Do ya? They, you guessed it, removed Wally and Donna from the narrative. But that's not all folks! Nope! Starfire got removed as well!

Honestly, I'm surprised Raven managed to still be in this thing. Cause it'd go Wally, Raven, Kori, Donna in terms of firepower.

Man... They weren't even clever about it. Wally was gone the entire issue with no explanation. He checked the perimeter of a jail once. That was it.

Donna and Kori got relegated to babysitting duty while the other Titans (sans Wally for no explainable reason) did the actual plot and went on a Heist in Hell.

This is concerning because this man is writing the new Titans series. The og series suffered because Donna and Wally were on a different level and the writers didn't know how to compensate for that so they kept knocking them out at the start of every issue. And now the same thing is happening.

Taylor doesn't know how to power balance. The best Justice League runs deal with assorted power levels by having different roles for the heroes to play. Ollie isn't on the front lines fighting General Zod with Clark and Diana. Hal doesn't tag along on stealth missions with Dinah and Bruce. Different heroes have different power levels and different abilities. Narratively, you have to juggle that.

And it's hard! I get that. It isn't easy. But I'm going to be honest, if a writer can't power balance then I don't want them writing the Titans series.

Because having half the cast drop out of the plot for no reason other than 'they would solve the plot too fast' is not good writing.

And I'm sorry. I'm going to say it. It's because Taylor is power scaling everything back for Nightwing. It doesn't take the entire goddamn Titans team to take out Blockbuster or to take out a single shape shifter. For some reason Taylor has this fascination with Grayson being the best and smartest Titan who can be the only one who solves issues, so every bad guy is difficult but doable for Nightwing to defeat.

It's incredibly annoying and it makes Nightwing seem super unlikable which is... I'm flabbergasted at that because it's Nightwing. How the hell do you make him unlikable?? But this is it. I've found it. This is the limit . Mary Sue Nightwing has no place in my heart.

[please-dont-pet-the-okapi]

"You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you!" // "O, miserable end of our alliance!"

The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher // Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope dir. George Lucas // Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace dir. George Lucas // Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover // Star Wars: Episode IV – Attack of the Clones dir. George Lucas // Rogue Planet by Greg Bear // Kenobi by John Jackson Miller // Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith dir. George Lucas

[r-2-peepoo]

Obi Wan wearing an impossible number of layers of clothing will never not be funny to me.

The idea of him being captured by Separatists and them trying to torture him but he’s wearing so many robes and tunics that all of their torture methods are rendered useless because he may as well be wearing armour. It would take hours to remove them all and by the time they do, Cody and the 212th have arrived to rescue him so it’s a completely pointless endeavour from the beginning. They just sort of stop trying to kidnap him after a while because it takes so long and they’re tired of his tunics littering their floors because the droids keep slipping on them.

[protectoroffaeries]

thinking more about my reply to this post (in the tags) & coming to the conclusion that a lot of pro-jedi & anti-jedi discourse that i've seen on tumblr seems to come from this idea that the jedi being well-meaning & theoretically correct AND their delivery being so botched that it is harmful & practically wrong for anakin skywalker are mutually exclusive rather than a critical aspect of the prequel's story.

& while i was thinking about this, i was pondering a real-world example to help demonstrate that these things are not only both present in the prequels but integral to the story it tells. so uh. tw for discussions of self-harm & obligatory i am not a mental health professional disclaimer - but i am someone who has self-harmed & who loves many people who self-harm.

most people are familiar with the trope of someone - usually a loved one - seeing someone else's self-harm scars & saying "oh please stop doing that, stop for me if you can't stop for yourself" & i can confirm that people do say things like this in real life, which is understandable - it's shocking, worrisome, hard to comprehend if you've not done it yourself. & i think we can agree that this sentiment is 1) theoretically correct, in the sense that self-harm is dangerous & can kill you pretty easily, and that, because of the danger it posses both physically & mentally, it should be stopped as soon as possible (likewise, anakin's lack of emotional control & especially his deep fear of his loved ones dying is pretty obviously harmful to himself & his relationships with them, so it makes sense that he should be encouraged to find a healthy way to cope) & 2) that this sentiment is well-meaning - this person doesn't want you to hurt or to be in danger (& i come down on the side that the jedi council at large does genuinely want what's best for anakin - i doubt they would tolerate his outbursts if they didn't).

however, it's also at best an unhelpful thing to say & at worst a motivator for the person to hurt themselves further. 1) it fails to acknowledge that people generally have a reason as to why the self-harm - for me, it provides relief from overwhelming stress & it allows me a semblance of control. i wouldn't rid myself of that much-needed outlet without an alternative for anyone, not even the people who love & care about me the most. (likewise anakin skywalker is not going develop any sort of emotional control or peace without some sort of real world assurance that his fears are both valid AND managable) which brings me to 2) it doesn't provide any tangible alternative or differing course of action. (i find the directive that anakin simply give his emotional overflow to the force similarly wanting - he finds his own passions to be his primary drive & telling them to give them up without a suitable replacement is gonna be nigh impossible). 3) this approach centers the feelings & perspective of the person speaking, not of the person who is self-harming. it reenforces the idea in #1 that not only do they not understand, but they don't care to. (likewise the jedi council by & large does not understand anakin's perspective nor do they care to, they just want him to adapt to what they think the best course is bc his emotions make them uncomfortable/don't align with their teachings. to extend the self-harm comparison, think about how many christian clergy react to confessions of self-harm from their congregants).